Pumpkin guts!

Last Sunday we did our "carving" of the pumpkins, and although this was by far the fastest it was ever done, I think we laughed and gushed the most! The kids are all so fun and happy in these little traditions that we have in place, its just wonderful to have them "remember" and "insist" that we follow through on them each year.
This year John only had to cut the top off of Katelyn and Jacob's pumpkins, they cleaned them and carved them independently! Katelyn, the planner that she is had a picture picked out from a magazine of the face that she wanted for her pumpkin and did a fabulous job creating a look alike of it!
Jacob just went with it and did "what his hands told him to"!! He kept saying "I am SO proud of myself"!! Those two have grown up so much over the last year, so great to see them going on to that new stage of Independence!
Emily needed a bit of help carving hers but that did not stop her from drawing the face she wanted and correcting if it wasn't right! She still ate the guts this year (Gross but true, she does it every year) although we didn't have to put it on the floor in a bowl this year so she could "eat it like a kitty"!! She also had to draw things on hers, like spider and words! Learning to spell has been so fun for her, and we see "Mom, Dad, Emily, Katelyn, Jacob and I love You" on a LOT of things these days!
John did a really nice job on our pumpkin too, I just love how it turned out! He is so good at making my ideas come to life. I think that will keep him around for longer that the "two more years" that he says I am going to keep him!